The Tool of Technology

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The Tool of Technology

• Curriculum-Technology Integration

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Why Use Technology?
Broadcast Learning
Interactive Learning
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The Overall Goals

• Real-life Applications
• Increased Motivation
• New Tools of Choice
• Students Constructing Learning

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Begins with an Excellent Teacher

• Collaborates with the learner
• A facilitator
• Communicates clear goals and targets
• Active learning
• Peer teaching and teamwork

• Real-life connections
• New audiences
• Spiral activities
• Promotes creativity and imagination
• Use of assessment and student self-reflection

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Real-Life Applications

• Problems that need solutions
• Concepts reinforced in new applications
• Utilizing new resources

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Increased Motivation

• Students personalizing their work
• Extending the learning
• The choice factor

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New Tools of Choice

• Word processor
• Spreadsheets
• Presentations
• Data bases
• Internet

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The Role of the Teacher.

• Articulates the goals
• Facilitator
• Provides a learning environment with choice and
  creativity
• Provides models of learning for students
• Focuses on the learning rather than the
  technology, Just in Time vs. Just in Case

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Scaffolding - Tools To Support Learning
a learning strategy that allows teachers to
construct a learning environment where students
can be successful while still making choices on
their own.
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Scaffolding - Defined
We tend to think of structures thrown up
alongside of buildings to support workers in
their skyward efforts.
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Scaffolding - Defined
"Structure" is the key word. Without clear
structure and precisely stated expectations, many
students are vulnerable to a kind of educational
"wanderlust" that pulls them far afield.  
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Scaffolding - Defined
The dilemma? How do we provide sufficient
structure to keep students productive without
confining them to straight jackets that destroy
initiative, motivation and resourcefulness?  
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Scaffolding - Flexible Adaptable

• SCAFFOLDING is used to solve different PROBLEMS
  in different WAYS

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Teachers as Designers

• Teachers create scaffolds, or organizational
  tools, for students to use

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Students As Designers

• Students use scaffolding
• Students then modify scaffolding to fit their own
  needs
• Students learning through their own DESIGN is
  POWERFUL

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Where Do We Start

• Excellent teachers
• Effective learning strategies
• Student centered environment
• Choices for students
• Integration

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So lets take a look
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So lets take a look

• Dinosaur KWLH
• Useful Instruction Strategies for Literature
• Definition Chart
• Research
• Learning by Design

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So lets take a look

• Character Trait Chart (Sarah Whittle)
• Hidden Text
• Reading Summary (Story Summary)
• Writing Plan
• Book Talk

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So lets take a look

• Scaffolding Plan- Book Talk Scaffolding
• Benchmark Target Form